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. >> guest: and two wars, exactly, iraq and afghanistan. and the velocity of the events and decisions just was so amazing, there really was no breather. and if you look back on it in that context, i mean, it really was a remarkable time for him to take over. and a lot of people asked me, what is it like to interview president obama? what is he like in person? well, he's very methodical. he's very disciplined. the qualities you see in public you see in private when you interview him. i've interviewed five presidents now. i've covered five presidents it's interesting that every other one of the other four there will be some chitchat. there will be a little sort of social moment there in the beginning. i walked into the oval office and president obama said, i've been thoroughly briefed, fire your questions away. and that was it. we went right to the issuing and that's the way he is. >> host: so no -- >> guest: how is your son, your daughter, no. and some people are a little taken aback by that because they think that maybe he should be a littl
. >> guest: and two wars, exactly, iraq and afghanistan. and the velocity of the events and decisions just was so amazing, there really was no breather. and if you look back on it in that context, i mean, it really was a remarkable time for him to take over. and a lot of people asked me, what is it like to interview president obama? what is he like in person? well, he's very methodical. he's very disciplined. the qualities you see in public you see in private when you interview him. i've...
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and the war, iraq and afghanistan, and just the velocity of the event and the decisions were so amazing there was no breather and if you look back in that context it really was a remarkable time for him to take over and a lot of people ask what is it like to interview him in person? well, he's very methodical and disciplined, the qualities you see in public and private when you interview him, when i've interviewed over five presidents now and it's interesting every other one of the four there will be some chitchat, the social moment in the beginning. i walked in the oval office and president obama says i have been thoroughly briefed. if i hear your questions away and we went right to the issues. know how was your son, your daughter, no. some people are taken aback by that because they think that maybe he should be a little bit more outgoing or friendly but he's not a back slapping kind of leader and people like the steadiness they see. >> host: he has pledged as you said to be a nonracial, race neutral president if he got himself embroiled in a little messy and you write about it a litt
and the war, iraq and afghanistan, and just the velocity of the event and the decisions were so amazing there was no breather and if you look back in that context it really was a remarkable time for him to take over and a lot of people ask what is it like to interview him in person? well, he's very methodical and disciplined, the qualities you see in public and private when you interview him, when i've interviewed over five presidents now and it's interesting every other one of the four there...
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iraq and afghanistan. the velocity of the events and decisions were so amazing. there really was no breather. and if you look back on it in that context, it was an remarkable time for him to take over. and a lot of people asked me what is it like to interview president obama. what is he like in person? well, he's very methodical, disciplined, the qualities that you see in public, you see in private when you interview him. i've interviewed five presidents now, i've covered five presidents. it's interesting that every other one of the other four there would be some chitchat, a little social moment there in the beginning. i walked into the oval office, president obama say i've been thoroughly briefed. fire your questions away. that's it. we went right to the issues. that's the way he is. >> host: no ice breakers. >> guest: how's your son, your daughter? no. some people are a little taken back by that. they think maybe he should be outgoing or friendly. he's not a back slapping kind of leader. a lot of people like the steadiness they see. >> host: you know, he has pl
iraq and afghanistan. the velocity of the events and decisions were so amazing. there really was no breather. and if you look back on it in that context, it was an remarkable time for him to take over. and a lot of people asked me what is it like to interview president obama. what is he like in person? well, he's very methodical, disciplined, the qualities that you see in public, you see in private when you interview him. i've interviewed five presidents now, i've covered five presidents. it's...
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dealing with the unemployment rate, dealing with one thing after another and the two wars, iraq and afghanistan. just the velocity of the events and decisions was so amazing there was no breather, and if you look back in that context it really was a remarkable time for him to take over. and a lot of people ask what is it like to interview president -- what is he like as a person? she's very methodical and a disciplined. the qualities you see in the public to see in private when you interview him. when i interviewed five presidents, covered five presidents and it's interesting that every other one of the four there would be some chitchat, there would be a little sort of social movement there in the beginning. i walked into the oval office and president obama said live in a thoroughly briefed, fighter the questions away and that was it. write to the issues and that's the way he is. >> host: so no -- >> guest: how's your daughter? no. some people are taken aback by that because they think maybe he should be a little bit more outgoing or friendly. but he's not a backslapping kind of leader and i th
dealing with the unemployment rate, dealing with one thing after another and the two wars, iraq and afghanistan. just the velocity of the events and decisions was so amazing there was no breather, and if you look back in that context it really was a remarkable time for him to take over. and a lot of people ask what is it like to interview president -- what is he like as a person? she's very methodical and a disciplined. the qualities you see in the public to see in private when you interview...
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call was made in san diego by one of the men who would ultimately be one of the suicide hijackers, to afghanistan but we couldn't track across the boundary because we didn't want the tracking of phone calls inside the united states by foreign intelligence. so would i liked to have known what he said a couple of days before 9/11? when we realized that, of course, we had been internal security problem, the attack on our internal security, we had to sew up that gap to the cia and what they knew about what was going on outside the country, and the fbi, and what they knew about what was going on inside the country, could talk to ewan another and that's what the so-called patriot act actually closed that seam. so that was one intelligence problem. the iraq intelligence problem was a little bit different but also structural. we had as many-depending on how you count them, between 15 and 17 different intelligence agencies in the united states. the defense department has one. energy department has one. state department has one. the cia has one, et cetera. the cia was one. the person who was in charge of a
call was made in san diego by one of the men who would ultimately be one of the suicide hijackers, to afghanistan but we couldn't track across the boundary because we didn't want the tracking of phone calls inside the united states by foreign intelligence. so would i liked to have known what he said a couple of days before 9/11? when we realized that, of course, we had been internal security problem, the attack on our internal security, we had to sew up that gap to the cia and what they knew...